
Overview
overview
- Professor Lipartito’s areas of specialization are economic and business history and the history of technology. Most of his research has been on the United States over the past century, although he also engages in comparative work on Europe and maintains a strong interest in the Atlantic world. By combining an understanding of the material dimensions of history—markets, businesses, technological systems—with an appreciation of their cultural and political ramifications, he challenges students to develop their own understanding of the evolution of modern society. He brings this multifaceted approach to his publications as well as to the classroom, where he regularly covers business history, the history of the global economy, political economy, the history of technology, as well as Atlantic civilization and twentieth century America.
Scholarly & Creative Works
selected publications
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Article
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2013Connecting the Cultural and the Material in Business HistoryFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/es/kht092 Web of Science: 000327435000002
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2013Mediating Reputation: Credit Reporting Systems in American HistoryFull Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0007680513001086 Web of Science: 000330349500009
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1994Component innovation: The case of automatic telephone switching, 1891-1920Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/icc/3.2.325
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1990What Have Lawyers Done for American Business? The Case of Baker & Botts of HoustonFull Text via DOI: 10.2307/3115737
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1983The New York Cotton Exchange and the Development of the Cotton Futures MarketFull Text via DOI: 10.2307/3114394
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Book
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2007Constructing Corporate America: History, Politics, CultureFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251902.001.0001
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2007Introduction: Crossing Corporate BoundariesFull Text via DOI: 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199251902.003.0001
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Book Chapter
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Book Review
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2020The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation.. Ed. 125.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/ahr/rhaa165 Web of Science: 000536528800046
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2019The Emergence of Routines: Entrepreneurship, Organization, and Business History. Ed. 20.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/eso.2018.42 Web of Science: 000457176100018
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2013Economic development in the Americas since 1500: endowments and institutions. Ed. 66.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/1468-0289.12021_17 Web of Science: 000330246800028
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2013Beyond Our Means: Why America Spends While the World Saves.. Ed. 118.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/ahr/118.3.811 Web of Science: 000319751600012
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2013Capitalism Takes Command: The Social Transformation of Nineteenth-Century America. Ed. 75.Full Text via DOI: 10.1111/hisn.12004_45 Web of Science: 000330180500049
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2011Beauty Imagined: A History of the Global Beauty Industry. Ed. 85.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0007680511000547 Web of Science: 000292370400009
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2009Capitalizing on Change: A Social History of American Business.. Ed. 83.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0007680500001070 Web of Science: 000274099600019
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2008Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Ed. 39.Full Text via DOI: 10.1162/jinh.2008.39.1.151 Web of Science: 000263904600043
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2006Structuring-the information age: Life insurance and technology in the twentieth century.. Ed. 47.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tech.2006.0238 Web of Science: 000241674400044
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2006How institutions think.. Ed. 80.Web of Science: 000237874900005
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2004The Oxford encyclopedia of economic history.. Ed. 5.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/es/khh034 Web of Science: 000227979100006
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2004Bell Labs: Life in the crown jewel. Ed. 26.Web of Science: 000189098500018
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2003Barnett: The story of "Florida's bank". Ed. 69.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/30039972 Web of Science: 000182684900051
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2002A phone of our own: The deaf insurrection against Ma Bell.. Ed. 93.Full Text via DOI: 10.1086/376049 Web of Science: 000181685200098
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2002The second wave: Southern industrialization from the 1940s to the 1970s.. Ed. 89.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3092480 Web of Science: 000179761100133
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2002Risk, uncertainty, and rational action.. Ed. 43.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tech.2002.0069 Web of Science: 000176560000044
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2001A nation transformed by information: How information has shaped the united stales from colonial times to the present.. Ed. 61.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/S0022050701483173 Web of Science: 000167682000039
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2000Endless novelty: Specialty production and American industrialization, 1865-1925.. Ed. 41.Web of Science: 000085132800020
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1999Business history and business culture.. Ed. 73.Full Text via DOI: 10.2307/3116108 Web of Science: 000084152800009
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Conference
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2020The Ontology of Economic Things. 592-621.Full Text via DOI: 10.1017/eso.2020.42 Web of Science: 000573254900003
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2020Introduction: Mapping the Shadowlands of Capitalism. 1-+.Web of Science: 000512232200001
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Editorial Material
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Other Scholarly Work
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2008The future of Alfred Chandler. 430-432.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/es/khn048 Web of Science: 000258962300008
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2006Editor's introduction. 421-421.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/es/khl009 Web of Science: 000240938600001
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Preprint
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Review
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2019Offshoring, outsourcing and global production networks in historical context. 62-88.Full Text via DOI: 10.3917/eh.094.0062
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2016Reassembling the Economic: New Departures in Historical Materialism. 101-139.Full Text via DOI: 10.1093/ahr/121.1.101 Web of Science: 000374229900005
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2010Regulation reconsidered: The telephone industry since 1975. 164-191.Full Text via DOI: 10.3917/eh.061.0164
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2003Picturephone and the information age - The social meaning of failure. 50-81.Full Text via DOI: 10.1353/tech.2003.0033 Web of Science: 000181408200003
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2000The historian in the rose garden?. 537-548.Web of Science: 000088495300005
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Works By Students
chaired theses and dissertations
- Silvia, Adam M, A System-of-Systems Framework for Assessment of Resilience in Complex Construction Projects 2016
- Vasquez, Cesar A, A History of the United States Caribbean Defense Command (1941-1947) 2016
- Cruz-Fernández, Paula A. de la, Atlantic Threads: Singer in Spain and Mexico, 1860-1940 2013
- Calvo, Christopher W., An American Political Economy: Industry, Trade, and Finance in the Antebellum Mind 2010
- Morii, Yumiko, A Comparative Analysis of Corporate Finance in the United States and Japan From 1880 to 1930 2008
- Barrella, Jessica Rose, Landscape of fear : a social history of the missile during the early years of the cold war, 1950-1965 2007
- Calvo, Christopher W., The Adam Smith thesis 2002
Research
principal investigator on
- CIFAR Fellowship Research Funds awarded by CIFAR 2019 - 2022
- Strategic Plan for Black Precinct and Courthouse in Overtown awarded by Black Police Precinct & Courthouse Museu 2016 - 2019
- Historical Exhibit for Hampton House awarded by John S. and James L. Knight Foundation 2017 - 2018
- Miami Beach Archives Digitalization Project awarded by City of Miami Beach 2014 - 2018
- Bridging the Gap: Linking History PhD Training to Non Academic Employment awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 - 2017
co-principal investigator on
- Historic Context Study on Violence Against People of African Descent, 1500 -2020 awarded by National Park Service 2021 - 2023
- Digital Archives for Virginia Key awarded by Institute of Museum and Library Services 2017 - 2019
- Hampton House African American Film Series awarded by Historic Hampton House Community Trust 2018 - 2019
- Teaching American History Grant awarded by U.S. Department of Education 2009 - 2013
- Teaching American History 7/12-6/13 awarded by Miami-Dade County Public Schools 2012 - 2013
investigator on
- Ecohumanities for Cities in Crisis awarded by National Endowment for the Humanities 2016 - 2017
Contact
full name
- Kenneth Lipartito
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